So he wants to live forever and have lots of wealth? Well, at least we know the scientist involved is human.

Way to completly ignore the question.

The question is why is an SSN secret? If the purpuse is to tell person A apart from person B who have the same/similar demograpic information (name, DOB, etc) then ok I get that. But why is the SSN treated as the end-all-be-all identification of that person?

The answer of course, is beacuse its easy on the credit companies and banks. Its something they dont assign, are not responsible for, and dont need to worry about. If someone takes it, well, look he had the right number...its a cop out. Plain and simple.

It would require more diligence of the bank, not the customer. The customer already needs to present things like birth certificates, drivers licenses, proof of residence, etc, etc. But none of that isn't easily spoofable, so they've tried long and hard to make people feel like a SSN is somehow safe, and unfakeable. An individual person can vanish without a trace, but a SSN wont. Or more specifically, whoever actually owns the SSN wont. They're now on the hook, and the leeches (banks, credit agencies, etc) get their money back.

I had a friend who's 5 year old had taken out a car loan half-way across the country. Sure, the DOB clearly didn't match, or the address, but geez they had a name and a valid SSN. So good to go...right? Every last one of these jerks should be in jail.

Because when someone starts doing something that makes them a lot of money, whatever methods they are using has this really nasty tendency to spread like a disease. While this particular flavor of CEO may not be affecting you, its all together possible he's going to end up rubbing off on some other flavor of CEO who is. And if not you, someone you care about.

Maybe because being undocumented has nothing to do with being here illegally? While its possible, its not a given, as many different situations can cause someone to become an undocumented individual who cannot prove their citizenship or right to be in the country. Lucky we're not all jerks and deport people without due cause.

In a perverse way, you have a good point. If you have the money to move this thing, you have the money to do it any number of ways much more cheeply than slamming an asteroid into the planet would be.

But if you're going to end all life on the surface of the planet anyway, who cares how expensive it is? Might as well have some fun with it.

Federal employees were not allowed to just get another job elsewhere in the meantime. many had to continue working, unpaid.

*PSST*

If people are filing bankruptcy due to medical bills chances are they're not able to pay them, thus supporting very point you're trying to argue against.

Somebody is paying for those medical bills that people cant afford and are losing their homes over. If you start off so wrong from the beginning... can we really trust anything else you've got to say?

Sadly no, I was a fool and pre-ordered BF3, and sadly have since sworn the franchise off (did play BF4 beta...not worth it). Anyway...

Punkbuster is built directly into BF3 and has given me nothing but problems. its actually the main reason I dont play BF3. It refuses to update automatically for some reason, and the only way to fix it is to manually update it through a horrible little download application. This will usually fix it for about 2-3 days then goes back to randomly kicking you from games because PB is not up to date, but wont give you an error message, you just get dropped. So whast that a PB issue, or was it a lag/server kick for ping/random drop/internet cutting out problem? Will take a few more attempts before I figure it out.

Between that and never figuring out how to join games with a friend, I just gave up on BF3. It doesn't want to work, and I dont have the time or energy to babbysit it.

Yes, lets rant about how prissy the 12 year old girl was for taking her own life. Because we all know 12 year olds (girl or boy) are capable of handling things like an adult should, in your perfect world.

This has been going on for years, just not 'liscenced' like this is. My mother for example, after my father died, joined an IRC channel for support of people who have lost loved ones to Cancer. She ended up becoming a major person to the group and helped many people through what she had to deal with, while getting help herself for her own issues from the loss of my father

If this holds true, I can sort of see why that might be. Given the time and lifestyle involved in such times, women were not really allowed to do much of anything. They were, in many cases, owned by the male.

blowing colorful pain on ones hand almost seems to me like something you'd discover by mistake if you were bored enough. You take human beings and put them in a situation where they're not allowed to do much more than raise a child and you'll have them invent some pretty interesting side projects im sure. The males would be too busy out killing one another or hunting an animal or two. You'd naturally have a mix but I could see why a majority of artwork would end up getting done by females.

That's the trick. This does both, sadly neither where you might expect it to.

Oh I agree, you shouldn't be modded troll. You should be modded off-topic because nobody cares if you feel this belongs on the site or not.

Get over yourself.

This guy is known for running a website that supports the First Amendment but he argues that the Fifth is a a detriment to society?

So you have the right to openly and freely speak your mind, but you dont have the right to NOT openly and freely speak your mind? Could you please cite some arguments on how these two views dont completly contradict one another?

Or are you just speaking out your back end? I'll simply asume you're wrong until you speak to me directly about it, because clearly by choosing not to speak you are admiting I am correct. See how that works?

Random Corp cant hold a gun to my head. Great, I feel so much better.

They can however, prevent me from obtaining employment (and being self-employed is not always an option folks), obtaining credit (That's an awfully nice credit score you have there...be a shame if something...happened...to it.), track my every movement through various means, take me to court on bogus charges then drop them forcing me to miss days of work to defend myself (if I am already employed), or bill me for services they did not provide and force me to spend more time and money fighting them in court.

They might not be able to kill me, but they sure as heck can make me want to kill myself. Is that really any better?